The plan to refreeze Arctic ice
Story by Richard Windsor, The Week UK • 22h
Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline.
Such is the rate of climate change in the region that experts believe, without intervention, it could be "ice-free in the summer in the 2030s", said the New Scientist, with devastating worldwide consequences.
How bad is the situation in the Arctic?
The level of Arctic sea ice has declined starkly in recent decades due to increasing global emissions and the "oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95%" since the 1980s, said the World Wildlife Fund.
At this point, there is some consensus that even if "greenhouse gas emissions are sharply reduced" immediately, the Arctic would still be free of summer ice by the next decade, said The Guardian. Research published last year suggests 90% of the melting had been due to "human-caused global heating", the paper added, and now the world must prepare for the knock-on effects including rising sea levels and more extreme summer heat and winter cold, as well as loss of habitat for wildlife.
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